Thursday, July 12, 2007

Regrets; oh so many of them!

Had training yesterday after my BCLS theory test. If you're wondering how I did for the paper, all I can say is that I'm certain I made less than 6 mistakes for it. Was stuck at the first question cause the question was "What is the 2nd most common cause of death in S'pore?"

Who asks this kinda questions anyway?!

I only know the leading cause of death in our country is Cancer. Bah! I went ahead with Heart attack as my answer. So if I get that question wrong... WHATEVER!

Back to Judo; it was way more intensive than the last few sessions. I can't seem to perfect tai-otoshi anymore. It used to be my all-time favourite technique when I was a yellow belt and before I mastered Morote Gari. What happen now? I suck big time at it. It didn't help that Anthony made me practise it a hundred times, and out of that 100 demonstrations, only TWO were up to his standards. Gosh!!! I aggravate myself so much sometimes!

After that, it was sparring with the white belts. As disappointing as it may sound, only ONE of the junior girls seem to have potential in winning a medal so far. I ain't saying who!! The rest of them still harbour this phobia of getting thrown by an opponent. And there was this particular girl who attempted O-Goshi (Large Hip Throw) on me. But instead of letting go of me after she turned herself, she dropped me from mid-air!!!

I landed with a loud "POM!!" on my pitiful back. Ouch... the things that seniors do to help juniors improve. *sigh* Hahaha!! Nah, no hard feeling whatsoever lah. I was a white belt once. I just hope this girl improves over time, otherwise the bruise on my back would be all for NOTHING!

Next, it was Seniors' Exercise training. Orange belts, Green belts and Blue belts got divided into three teams. I was with Subi and Benjamin. Mr Peh JJ made each team run to different corners of the dojo and at each corner, we had to do either 10 push-ups, squats, sit-ups or berpees (what's the correct spelling?). And if that wasn't enough, he also made us run to the centre of the dojo and every team had to do this break-dancing stunt!!

Break-dancing?!?!?!?! I'll break my joints lah!

The team that completes all 5 stations the slowest had to do extra push-ups, I think. Not sure about the forfeit because Ben, Subi and I were "celebrating" by the water-cooler cause we were the fastest. Cheers to us, baby!

There wasn't an ounce of strength left within me after that. I was panting like some kinda dehydrated mongrel (I chose to use the term "mongrel" because it is unlikely that dogs would have such messy hair) and Hadi still ask me to go swimming with him and Jaya. THOSE TWO ARE BONKERS! Tsktsktsk, where on earth do guys find the extra energy to swim after 3 hours of training?!

I moon-tanned! And it just so happened that the dragonboat guys were practising their oar-ing by the olympic pool, so I enjoyed a fair bit of eye-candy. WAHAHA! One of the guys had real abs of steel ok! Initially, I was just eye-ing his biceps since he had a tank-top on. But when he removed it to wipe his perspiration,



OMMMMGGGGGGGGG!!!!


Just the sorta abs I'd look for if I were directing a Bay-watch film. Read: Jason Momoa, Kelly Slater, Jason Blake etc.

The two guys took forever to decide whether or not to change into a dry set of clothes after their swim. Typical contemplations that went like, "Need to change or not huh? This sort of material dry very fast one right?", "EH! if don't change, then later sit on the MRT the whole chair flooded how ah?", "If I wear this shorts inside my jeans and my jeans become wet, will the water marks be obvious or not? Later got people laugh.", "You changing your shorts or not? You change then I change", "You want to change or not? I anything one."

I was making such a din about the both of them taking such a long time to get ready that Jaya didn't bother changing in the end. He just pulled a shirt over. Hahahaha! As for Hadi, well, he wore his jeans over his very drenched shorts and then sat down to tie his shoe laces. But when he stood up.... WAKAKAKAKAKA!!!!

Dined at KFC with them. Ordered the family feast BUT... I only ate one piece of chicken. Which part ah?! Lol! Had to restrain myself from going after another piece of fried chicken, the whipped potato and an extra serving of cheese fries. That's what I normally binge on when I go to KFC. The pains of controlling one's diet...

I DON'T WANNA BE A SUMO WRESTLER! Yuck!

My love for the sport grows with every session. Dorie, you wanna join CCA??? JOIN JUDO!!